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Dr Brian Tobin, lecturer at the School of Law in NUI Galway Women in a same-sex marriage with donor-conceived children have been "left in a legal quagmire" by the Government according to a legal academic, the Irish Examiner reports.

There was a 38 per cent increase in the number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made last year in comparison with 2014, new figures show. The figures are included in the Office of the Information Commissioner's (OIC) annual report, which also shows a 20 per cent increase in the number of rev

Sabine Walsh The president of the Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII) has called on TDs to support the publication and enactment of the Mediation Bill as she opened the organisation's new headquarters in Smithfield, Dublin.

Tara Doyle, head of Matheson's asset management and investment funds group Tara Doyle, head of Matheson's asset management and investment funds group, will moderate a panel at the Euromoney Learning Solutions 6th UCITS Conference in London.

Kevin Hanratty, director of the Human Rights Consortium The Human Rights Consortium (HRC) has expressed concerns that plans for a British Bill of Rights are still on the table despite indications that it would breach the Good Friday Agreement.

The UK Supreme Court has unanimously granted a celebrity permission to appeal the discharge of an interim injunction regarding his sexual encounters and, by a majority, has allowed the appeal. This case considered whether the publication overseas of the identity of PJS and details of PJS’s sexual

Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan Ireland's Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan yesterday delivered the keynote address at a Belfast conference on Brexit and its consequences.

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to surrender a man who had been sentenced in the UK to life imprisonment in 1984 for the murder of his neighbour back to the UK, finding that while the UK system with regards to life sentences would be unconstitutional in Ireland, it did not justify Ireland re

Children's Minister Dr Katherine Zappone Legislation to revise adoption law in the wake of the children's referendum in 2012 is the first bill to go before the 32nd Dáil.

Gerry McAlinden QC, chairman of the Bar Council The Bar of Northern Ireland has welcomed the arrival of 108 new MLAs following the elections on 5 May.

Dublin firm Reddy Charlton has appointed Godfrey Hogan as a new principal consultant, recruiting him from Woods Hogan Solicitors, where he had served as managing partner since 2012.

A judge has told a sitting of Belmullet District Court that case management in Northern Ireland is much better than in the south, The Mayo News reports. Judge Conal Gibbons last week refused to hear a case which would have taken between two and three hours to complete because there were too many oth

Legal rights group FLAC has urged the Oireachtas housing and homelessness committee to take action to avert the threat of homelessness to 30,000 households in long-term arrears on their mortgages. Senior policy analyst Paul Joyce, legal and policy officer Ciaran Finlay, and Public Interest Law Allia

Bella Sankey, director of policy for Liberty A coalition of more than 130 of the UK’s most prominent organisations – ranging from religious and professional bodies to law firms, unions, environmental charities and the families of terrorism victims – have publicly committed to oppose any attemp

Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP An independent report concluding that the repeal of the Human Rights Act is likely to breach the Good Friday Agreement was launched in Westminster yesterday.